Fall Clean Up 2014

October 2nd, 2014

To All City of London garbage residents, we will be having our Fall cleanup beginning October 20 thru October 31, 2014. Please stack or place your items neatly by the city street then call us when you have everything out. Call 606-864-5521 when you are ready to be placed on the pick-up list. Please allow us at least three business days to pick items up for you.

Also, don’t forget to use the Free Recycling, located at 950 TLC Lane, London, KY. This service is free to everyone.

WELCOME!!!

February 12th, 2014

We are pleased to be able to bring you the most up to date information concerning our Center. We are open 24 hours a day 7 days a week and are working hard to accommodate all of your recycling needs, at this point it is easier to tell you what is not recyclable than what is. If you have any questions feel free to contact us anytime at 606-864-5521.

We are Pleased to be able to offer an online training PowerPoint on how to get started Recycling and we are including commitment Forms that you will be able to fill out and submit online until then a printable version is available just print, fill out, and mail, to help us track how many committed individuals are participating. Our Goal now is to have150 businesses 100 individuals and 100% local school participation.

Local Schools Profit from Recycling!

our local schools are able to participate in a program that allows them to receive class room funds based on the amount of recyclables that are picked up at each school. For a list of each school an the amount of class room funds they have received to date.

HAZEL GREEN GOES “GREEN”, EARNS “GREEN”

February 11th, 2014

PHOTOS:

- Hazel Green Elementary School’s fourth and fifth-grade students accepted the PRIDE Environmental Education Project of the Month Award for their plastic recycling project. Principal Brad Mullins and Bianca Hawkins, who led the project, are on the front row, and the fourth and fifth-grade teachers are in the back.

- Fifth-grade math students from Tracie Hacker’s class posed with some of the plastic bottles collected for recycling by Hazel Green Elementary School. Photo by Bianca Hawkins.

EAST BERNSTADT, KY — Hazel Green Elementary School students made money for their school while learning about recycling. Their project also earned the PRIDE Environmental Education Project of the Month Award.

For two weeks in December, students were encouraged to save every piece of plastic used in their homes, such as water bottles and liquid soap containers. They brought the plastic to school to be recycled. Fourth and fifth-grade math students added up the ounces on the plastic containers. They converted the ounces to gallons — which came to 192.45 gallons. Then, they figured out the equivalent number of 16-ounce plastic water bottles, for a visual effect.

“If you can picture 1,539 plastic water bottles, that’s how much plastic Hazel Green students collected in their homes in just two weeks,” said PRIDE’s Mark Davis, who presented the award Friday. “That’s the same as 64 of those 24-bottle cases of bottle water. Congratulations on such a successful effort.”

“It was an eye-opener to learn how many bottles that we kept out of the landfill,” said Principal Brad Mullins. “When I announced the results, it was a light-bulb moment for the kids.”

“Our kids loved this project,” Mullins said. “There was more interest in it than I thought there would be. Some kids brought in big garbage bags filled with plastic bottles.”

“Students are aware that anything that was brought in, ultimately, made money for their school,” added Bianca Hawkins, AmeriCorps/Operation UNITE tutor at Hazel Green Elementary. She organized the recycling project.

Hazel Green was paid for the plastic through the London Regional Recycling Center’s incentive program for local schools. The center places recycling bins at all schools in Laurel County and picks them up regularly. The center weighs the bins and tracks how much each school recycles. At the end of the quarter, each school receives a check for the value of its recyclables. Since 2008, the center has paid $27,432 into the classroom funds of local schools.

Hazel Green held its own fundraiser during its two-week recycling project. Students sold reusable aluminum water bottles to raise money for the school’s environmental education activities. The money will pay for recycling bins in all classrooms, as well as supplies for the school’s garden and greenhouse, which was purchased with a PRIDE grant this year.

“We are hoping that this will be a wakeup call for those families who do not recycle in their homes to start doing so,” Hawkins said. “Some of the teachers who didn’t recycle before are now recycling at school and at home.”

“This project went so well, we plan to continue recycling at Hazel Green,” Mullins said. “I invite parents to bring their recyclables here. It will earn money for our school.”

“Hazel Green is finally ‘going green,’” Mullins joked.

The PRIDE Environmental Education Project of the Month Award rewards creative, effective ways of promoting environmental awareness and stewardship. PRIDE presents one award each month to a school within the 42 counties of southern and eastern Kentucky.